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Old January 09, 2013, 06:36 AM
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Please translate one phrase into spanish

How do you say in spanish "The best has happened to me. Or I don't know what is good"?
Would it be "El mejor se ocurrió. O no sE que es bueno"?
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Old January 09, 2013, 11:57 AM
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How do you say in spanish "The best has happened to me. Or I don't know what is good"?
Would it be "El (requires neuter gender agreement) mejor se *** (missing object pronoun) ocurrió. *** (Missing punctuation) O no sE (spelling/accent mark) que (either spelling or incorrect form of relative pronoun) es bueno"?
This is a good attempt, although there are a few things to fix.

The edit window has a drop-down list labeled "Accents" that you can use to insert accented characters and Spanish punctuation characters.

Things to consider:

1. "El/la mejor" means "the best one" (a specific thing), and not "the best" (an abstract concept). The usual way to use an adjective ("mejor" = "better" or "best) as an abstract noun ("the best") is to make it a neuter noun by using the neuter definite article "lo": "lo mejor" = "the best", "lo bueno" = "that which is good", "lo malo" = "that which is bad", "lo peor" = "the worst".

2. "se ocurrió" = "(has) happened", but where is the "to me"?

3. Initial question marks and exclamation points are mandatory.

4. "se" (no accent mark) is an object pronoun: as written the question looks like it has no verb.

5. "que" (no accent mark) = "that" (relative pronoun), not "what?" (interrogative pronoun). If you really want to use a relative pronoun in this sentence, "que" is the wrong one: you would need to use the appropriate gender/number of "el que", and in this case you would use neuter gender.
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